From de384cfd8207d2ef68ac2643b6f4726abd8154b5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christian Grothoff Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 12:01:37 +0200 Subject: more clarifications --- doc/paper/taler.tex | 9 +++++---- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/paper/taler.tex') diff --git a/doc/paper/taler.tex b/doc/paper/taler.tex index e56640b0e..0dc7686bc 100644 --- a/doc/paper/taler.tex +++ b/doc/paper/taler.tex @@ -222,7 +222,8 @@ the coin. Online fraud detection can create problems if the network fails during the initial steps of a transaction. For example, a law enforcement agency might try to entrap a customer by offering illicit goods and -then cancelling the transaction after learning the public key of the +then cancelling the transaction (i.e. by pretending that there is +a network failure) after learning the public key of the coin. This is equivalent to a benign merchant giving a dissatisfied (anonymous) customer a {\em refund} by sending a message affirming the cancellation. @@ -868,8 +869,8 @@ request $S_{C'}(\mathtt{link})$ with $(T^{(\gamma)}_p$, $B^{(\gamma)}, % This allows the owner of the melted coin to also obtain the private key of the new coin, even if the refreshing protocol was illicitly -executed with the help of another party who generated $C'_s$ and only -provided $\vec{C'_p}$ and other required information to the old owner. +executed with the help of another party who generated $C_s$ and only +provided $\vec{C_p}$ and other required information to the old owner. As a result, linking ensures that access to the new coins minted by the refresh protocol is always {\em shared} with the owner of the melted coins. This makes it impossible to abuse the refresh protocol @@ -1064,7 +1065,7 @@ computing base (TCB) is public and free software. %This work was supported by a grant from the Renewable Freedom Foundation. % FIXME: ARED? -%We thank Tanja Lange, Dan Bernstein and Fabian Kirsch for feedback on an earlier +%We thank Tanja Lange, Dan Bernstein, Luis Ressel and Fabian Kirsch for feedback on an earlier %version of this paper, Nicolas Fournier for implementing and running %some performance benchmarks, and Richard Stallman, Hellekin Wolf, %Jacob Appelbaum for productive discussions and support. -- cgit v1.2.3